GitHub Fundamentals

Repository for the GitHub Fundamentals training.

👉 Objectives

• Learning to navigate GitHub and know the most important features (including shortcuts and search)
• Use GitHub Mobile, emails, and web to efficiently manage your notifications
• Use GitHub-flavored Markdown to create rich content and collaborate
• Use Discussions and Wikis with Markdown to collaborate and create content
• Learn about your User Profile, Contributions, Achievements, and For You
• Create nested issues and labels to track work and requirements
• Manage and track your work and requirements using GitHub Projects (including visualization)
• Effective collaboration using pull requests and code reviews (draft pull requests, suggestions, auto-merge)

Getting ready

Please check the prerequisites so that you have everything prepared.

👥 Audience

This training is for all other roles involved in product development besides developers - like product owners, designers, or any other type of stakeholder. The audience can also contain people completely new to engineering. That's why we try not to use the command-line and do everything in visual tools. The focus of this training are the collaboration features and how to use them effectively.

⚡ Prerequisites

For this workshop you need the following:

• A laptop (Windows, Mac, or Linux)
• A free account for https://github.com
• It is recommended to have a second screen for the hand-on labs

📆 Agenda

Part 1.1: 🚀 GitHub Fundamentals

• Navigating GitHub
• Mobile and Profile
• GitHub-flavored markdown

Part 1.2: 🗒️ Collaborate on ideas

• GitHub Discussions
• Wikis and Pages
• GitHub Issues
• GitHub Projects

Part 2: 🤝 Collaborate on code

• Branching strategies and git workflows like GitHub flow
  • Git flow
  • GitHub flow
  • MyFlow
• Code owners and branch protection (demo)
• 🔨 Hands-on: Proposing changes
• 🔨 Hands-on: Making suggestions
• 🔨 Hands-on: Applying suggestions
• 🔨 Hands-on: Code reviews